Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida The Two Sisters painting

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida The Two Sisters paintingJoaquin Sorolla y Bastida Maria paintingAlexandre Cabanel Ophelia painting
of poison and witchcraft. The accusers did not mention the supernatural events at Antioch for fear of encouraging skeptical laughter, nor could they accuse Piso of interfering with Germanicus's household servants and slaves, because it bad already been shown that they had nothing to do with the murder. So Piso was accused of poisoning Germanicus's food while he sat next to him at a banquet in Germanicus's own house. Piso ridiculed this charge: how could he possibly have done such a thing without someone noticing it, when the whole table, not to mention the waiters, were watching every movement he made? By magic perhaps?
He had a bundle of letters in his hand which everyone knew, by the size and colour and the way they were tied, were from Tiberius. Germanicus's friends moved that any instructions that Piso had been sent from Rome should be read. Piso refused to read the letters on the ground that they were